An SEO contest is an activity where one has to optimize their site for any specific keywords giving by the concerned organizer of their respective contest. In other words, it is an challenges to the big Internet Marketers and other search engine optimization (SEO) practitioners to rank themselves among the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN using certain keyword(s). In many Seocontest, majority of Seo contestants use Spammy way of optimization let me give you some examples:

1. Hiding the keywords with the background colors Ex: Seocontest2008 is the keyword and they will use CSS classes to hide the keywords with the white background color.

2. Keywords stuffing in title. Ex. Seocontest2008 is the keyword and they will use it in title twice or thrice using other key phrases.

3. Spamming links in other blogs and community sites. Ex. They will comment in the blogs and other sites with their keywords by putting links in their comments and feedbacks.

I hope it can give you ample of ideas how to aware with those seo contestants.

The organizing body of an SEO competition can make any type of legitimate rules to win the seocontest without promotion of a product or service in mind; or they may organize a seocontest in sense of making promoting their products, website or some thing else. Participants can showcase their skills and potentially discover and share new techniques for promoting websites.

I have list of some previous seocontest that had been held in the past:

1. In the year of May 7, 2004, first seocontest was started by SearchGuild for the phrase ?Schnitzelmitkartoffelsalat? and won after two months by Anil Dash.

2. In the Second seocontest, in the same year of 2004 on September 1, webmasters were challenged to rank number 1 on Google within 3 months? of time and the key phrase was ?seraphim proudleduck?.

3. In the first quarter of 2005, Webmasters found new challenge to accept where they have to compete for the term loquine gulped, spawning web sites which was ranged from the advertising of shampoos to the extend of holiday resorts. Hopefully, the page that won in the end looked rather boring, and used their Spammy techniques like "keyword stuffing?.

4. Another seocntest ran from January 1, 2006 to March 1, 2006 and here targeted term was the reds cowl bluesingsky. This time seocontest was sponsored by SEOLogs. Winner was Shoemoney who did best, and he donated his awarded money to the number 2 winner.

5. Last Seocontest was in the year of 2007 that was one of the biggest seocontest held in the contest world so far. Keywords were ?Globalwarming Awareness2007? and first prize was Car. Winner was Benj Arriola from Philippines.

6. Seocontest going on in this year of 2008, where keyword phrase is seocontest2008 sponsored by ukwebmasterworld.com and who will be winner don't know.

Some webmasters resort to spam, while others use white-hat optimization techniques, like providing good content covering the competition, or optimizing page titles.[1] Most SEO contests expect people to optimize a single web page for a non-existent phrase of two silly words. The main reason for this is to keep existing web sites from getting a head start. But at the same time it makes sure that regular internet searchers won't be bombarded with "Spammy" results when searching the web for "regular" information.

Let see who have best capabilities to do stand in the war of seocontest2008 for the $1000